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About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...
U.S. Army Signals Intelligence Service cryptologists, mostly women, at work at Arlington Hall circa 1943. The Code Girls or World War II Code Girls is a nickname for the more than 10,000 women who served as cryptographers (code makers) and cryptanalysts (code breakers) for the United States Military during World War II, working in secrecy to break German and Japanese codes.
During World War I and World War II, the primary role of women shifted towards employment in munitions factories, agriculture and food rationing, and other areas to fill the gaps left by men who had been drafted into the military. One of the most notable changes during World War II was the inclusion of many of women in regular military units.
Women war correspondents (4 C, 55 P) Female war criminals (1 C, 15 P) Female wartime cross-dressers (4 C, 100 P) G. War goddesses (14 C, 84 P) M. Women in the ...
During World War II, over 350,000 women served in the United States Armed Forces as members of the Army's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (later renamed the Women's Army Corps), the Navy's WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and the Marine Corps' Women's Reserve.
Campbell, DAnn, and Karen Hagemann. "Post-1945 Western Militaries, Female Soldiers and Gay and Lesbian Rights" in The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 (2020). Carreiras, Helena. Gender and the military: Women in the armed forces of western democracies (Routledge, 2006). Goldschmidt, Arthur (2000).
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The first woman to enter training to become a tactical air control party airman left shortly thereafter due to an injury. [345] Ten Army women became the first women to graduate from the Army's Infantry Basic Officer Leader's Course. [346] Kayci Landes became the first woman in the Army to graduate as a 19D Cavalry Scout. [347]